It was a lighthearted look at health care reform rather than the typical, analytical approach we typically use to ravage Obama Care. The post can be accessed via the following link:
http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2011/02/whimsical-and-illustrative-if.html
The crux of the post was that you can usually solve problems easier, better, cheaper, and less oppressively if the human behavior you want to change is done in a positive manner rather than a negative, forcible manner. Obama Care is not a positive approach. Obama care forces you to buy health care insurance. Obama Care forces you to pay more in taxes. Obama Care forces a cumbersome, ineffective, expensive, and likely doomed bureaucracy on the country. There is no elegance to Obama Care, it is a brute force approach to problem solving that will fail because if does not attack specific root causes of our escalating health care costs.
The Swedish experiment showed how to elegantly change behavior in a positive way. It is the kind of specific, elegantly thinking that is needed in this country to fix the problems that Obama Care will not fix. The following is also another lighthearted approach to fixing the high costs of health care in this country, specifically the high cost of nursing homes.
The solution listed below is in an email currently circulating on the Net. While on the surface it is funny and seems quite impractical relative to addressing one aspect of our high health care costs, skyrocketing nursing home costs, just like the Swedish experiment, if you think about it, the approach is certainly more elegant than anything in Obama Care:
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NO NURSING HOME FOR ME!!!
No nursing home for me. I'll be checking into a Holiday Inn! With the average cost for a nursing home care costing $188.00 per day, there is a better way when I get old and too feeble.
I've already checked on reservations at the Holiday Inn.
For a combined long term stay discount and senior discount, it's $59.23 per night.
Breakfast is included, and some have happy hours in the afternoon.
That leaves $128.77 a day for lunch and dinner in any restaurant I want, or room service, laundry, gratuities and special TV movies.
Plus, they provide a spa, swimming pool, a workout room, a lounge and washer-dryer, etc.
Most have free toothpaste and razors, and all have free shampoo and soap.
$5 worth of tips a day, you'll have the entire staff scrambling to help you.
They treat you like a customer, not a patient.
There's a city bus stop out front, and seniors ride free.
The handicap bus will also pick you up (if you fake a decent limp).
To meet other nice people, call a church bus on Sundays.
For a change of scenery, take the airport shuttle bus and eat at one of the nice restaurants there.
While you're at the airport, fly somewhere. Otherwise, the cash keeps building up.
It takes months to get into decent nursing homes. Holiday Inn will take your reservation today.
And you're not stuck in one place forever -- you can move from Inn to Inn, or even from city to city.
Want to see Hawaii? They have Holiday Inns there too.
TV broken? Light bulbs need changing? Need a mattress replaced?
No problem... They fix everything, and apologize for the inconvenience.
The Inn has a night security person and daily room service. The maid checks to see if you are okay. If not, they'll call an ambulance ... or the undertaker.
If you fall and break a hip, Medicare will pay for the hip, and Holiday Inn will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.
And no worries about visits from family. They will always be glad to find you, and probably check in for a few days mini-vacation.
The grandkids can use the pool.
What more could you ask for?
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Think about it, it certainly has more merit than many of the hidden disasters we are coming across as knowledgeable people read and analyze Obama Care. It is a positive, elegant approach to a problem, just like the Swedish experiment was. It does not involve a government bureaucracy and reduces cost within the health care industry. It is a positive approach that is a better solution for many people than the current way of doing business in this country relative to nursing homes.
Wouldn't it be nice of the political class could actually think out of the box and as elegantly like the Swedes did and this nursing home bound American did rather than heavy handedly and with brutal force like as with Obama Care. If they did, would we would at least save some trees since we would not longer need 2,500 page pieces of doomed legislation like Obama Care incurred and we would all be assured of room service in our old age.
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